Music Baseball Poems

I said I ain't been on no bike
He said, 'Well, there it is.'

Premature baldness and popcorn muscles
I told him I got a B in History

He...

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What Is Happening?

Yes, the little Genie asked
What is happening?
Children aren’t being taught
To tell time,
They can’t look at the clock and
Know whether it’s one o’clock
Or it’s...

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sipping pinot grigio '09
soothing raindrops of beethoven's ninth
washing away the dust of my day

tv on, watching my mudville nine -
two outs in the bottom of...

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Lines, Launch Angles and Curve Balls

The boys of summer 
Set up for a season of lines, launch angles and curve balls
With straight chalky lines leading...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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One More

Raise the curtain, 
I am ready. 
Let's write and read together, 
for hours without end. 
Dressing up in costumes, 
singing crazy shanties, 
or Round...

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which words
makes him stumble
those he wishes to hear
or those he longs to hear

which words do she want to hear
those that causes togetherness
or those that divides...

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ENGAGES THEROGENICS
 50 SITUPS
100 PUSHUPS
35 SQUATS
50 DUMDBELL CURLS
50 BENCH PRESS
WORK THE NECK
SHOULDER WORK
WALK AND RUN THE TRACK
GASTRONOMTRY

2 CABBAGE DEIT
AND THE
PROTEIN MEAL DEIT
3 DAYS OF FRUITS
AND...

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watch yo mouth
guard yo words
take yo' time
shut-up boy and do-it 
shut-up Boy and do-it
shut up boy and do-it !
shut-up boy and do-it !
tell that man
what...

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New York 1955


  Evening in Broadway I saw Alan Ladd 
 Talking to Joe Dempsey
  Alan was surprisingly small
 Joe was big and...

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To know just where your're going

You must know where you've been

You must respect the history

The things others have seen

It's true in all things relative

Be it...

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Dream makers

 Through grimy windows, I can see
Santa and his elves blowing
bubbles, goblets and vases heat
and rolled up sleeves

Outside, large flakes of snow
dissolve on asphalt.

From...

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stop what you doing

beep beep you don't stop

I got pop rocks in the bottom of my socks

one eight hundred on the dial

 

buddy buddy what's...

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A Sonnet To Growing Older

My heart now speaks to me of ageless things
 Of solitary walks down country lanes
 Of quilted calico with simpler schemes
...

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The sun of Aleppo will not
Smit you by the night of war;
for you are the toothpick stronger
then the great wall of China,
you are a king...

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